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Is Mike Right Here?

By Anton Chuvakin
Mike Rothman said: "Neither HP (nor IBM for that matter) has a security strategy."

Is he right? What do you think?

Comments

yoshi said…
I stopped ready Rohlman's blog a while ago. But I don't look for vendors to provide a "security strategy". Its my job to help define a strategy that meets my companies objectives. If HP, IBM, or whomever just happen to provide the tools and/or services that meet our strategy - than great. Otherwise - whatever their strategy may or may not be is not useful to me.
12:22 PM
Anton Chuvakin said…
Well, I read it as they don't have THEIR OWN strategy meaning they have no idea what to do with "all this security stuff" AS OPPOSED TO "they don't have a strategy to sell their customers" (your comment certainly rings true in the latter sense!)

Just curious, why stop reading Mike?
12:26 PM
dre said…
he was referring to selling security services or products. in simple terms, "HP and IBM don't know how to compete with Symantec, or Honeywell".

i believe this was in response to IBM's acquisition of Watchfire and HP's acquisition of SPI Dynamics, who are both web application security scanning companies.
6:52 PM
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